Awards & Honors
Prof. Anurag Agrawal
Year 2023: Fondation Botnar International grant for Digital Transformation for Health
Year 2022: Fellow, National Academy of Medical Sciences
Prof. LS Shashidhara
Year 2019: Elected as President of Internal Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
Year 2023: Invited to charge as the Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore
Prof. Gautam Menon
Year 2023: Commissioner, Lancet Commission, “Strengthening the Usefulness of Epidemiological Modelling”
Year 2022: Editorial Board, PLoS Global Health
Year 2021: Co-Chair, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellowship Selection Committee
Year 2020: Member, Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Selection Committee (Co-Chair: 2022)
Year 2023: Tankhawale Endowment Lecture, Nagpur University
Year 2022: Cockroft-Walton Lecture, Indian Physics Association & Institute of Physics, UK
Year 2023: Member, Inter-Academy Panel for Women in STEMM (IAP-WiSTEMM)
Year 2021: Member of the Jury, India Science Festival
Year 2021: Member, CII Task force “Mission on Health”
Year 2021: Member, State Epidemiological Committee on COVID-19, Andhra Pradesh
Dr. Kasturi Mitra
Year 2021 (awarded): DBT-WellcomeTrust India Alliance Senior Fellowship
Achievements of the Lab Members:
- Swati Agarwala:
- DBT-RA fellowship (Year 2023)
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- DBT-JRF fellowship (Awarded Year 2022)
Dr. Imroze Khan
Year 2023: Invited member of Molecular Immunology Forum, India
Year 2021: DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship
Year 2017: Early Career Research Award, SERB-DST
Guest Editor of eLife
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Genetics
Associate Editor of Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Achievements of the Lab Members:
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- Simons-Ashoka Early Career Fellowship (Year 2023)
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- DFG travel grant to attend the Ecological Immunology Workshop held at Blossin, Germany (Year 2022)
- Featured on the Naturalist Selection an interview series produced by the American Society of Naturalist Graduate Council (Year 2022)
- Best poster prize at the first conference of the Indian society of evolutionary Biologists held at JNCASR, Bangalore (Year 2019)
- Best poster prize at the Understanding Behaviour Conference held at IISER Kolkata (Year 2019)
- Received NIH outstanding investigator MIRA award and NSF Career award as Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Montana (Year 2023)
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- Best poster prize at the 4th International conference of the Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists held in Ahmedabad (Year 2023)
- International travel grant by European Society of Evolutionary Biologists to present in ESEB 2022 held in Prague (Year 2022)
- First candidate from India to win RC Lewontin’s Early Career Research Grant by Society for Study of Evolution (one of the apex Evolutionary biology societies in the world) (Year 2020).
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- DST-INSPIRE Ph.D. fellowship (Year 2023)
- DST-SERB travel grant (International Travel Scheme) to attend Ecological immunology workshop held at Blossin, Germany (Year 2022)
- Travel Grant by Indian Society for Evolutionary Biology (ISEB) to attend the conference organized by ISEB held at Punjabi University, Patiala (Year 2022).
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- Recipient of MEME, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship to pursue Masters in Evolutionary Biology (Year 2022)
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- Recipient of MEME, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship to pursue Masters in Evolutionary Biology (Year 2021)
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- Recipient of MEME, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship to pursue Masters in Evolutionary Biology (Year 2023)
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- Recipient of MEME, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship to pursue Masters in Evolutionary Biology (Year 2023)
- Best Poster award at Ashoka University Science Fest (Year 2023)
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- CSIR-NET Fellowship (Year 2017)
- Arun Prakash:
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- Recipient of Darwin Trust PhD Fellowship as Project Assistant to join the University of Edinburgh (Year 2017).
Dr. Anup Padmanabhan
Year 2019: DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship
Member of Faculty of 1000
Member of American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Member of Indian Society of Cell Biology
Member of Singapore Stem Cell Society
Dr. Shivani Krishna
Year 2020: DST-SERB Core Research Grant
Dr. Balaji Chattopadhyay
Year 2022: DST-SERB Research Grant
Year 2022: Travel award to attend the 19th International Bat Research Conference and GBatNet (Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks) meeting
Co-lead: Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks
Achievements of the Lab Members:
- Ratnesh Karjee:
- Scholarship to attend online Winter School Workshop on ‘Conservation Genetics on Tropics Courses’ hosted by Estación Biológica de Doñana (Year 2022)
- Invited as resource person for one-day online workshop on Remote Sensing- Geographic Information System and its Applications using QGIS at Centurion University of Technology & Management, Bhubaneswar (Year 2023)
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- CSIR-UGC JRF Fellowship (Year 2020)
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- Idea Wild Equipment grant (Year 2023)
- iDiv International Travel Grant (Year 2022)
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- Partial Scholarship for Master’s program in Duke University, Columbia University and University of Michigan
Dr. Kasturi Pal
Year 2020: DBT India Ramalingaswami Fellowship
Year 2021: DBT research grant
Achievements of the Lab Members:
- Abhijit Sreepada:
- Recipient of Erasmus Mundus Fellowship to pursue Masters program in Innovative Medicine (Year 2021)
- Priyadatha Sajan:
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- Recipient of Erasmus Mundus Fellowship to pursue Masters program in Innovative Medicine (Year 2023)
Dr. Sougata Roy
Year 2019: DST SERB-SRG
Year 2020: DST SERB-CRG
Year 2022: Research Grant by Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
Year 2022: DBT research grant
Dr. Sudipta Tung
Year 2021: INSA Medal for Young Scientists
Year 2019 (awarded): DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellowship
Achievements of the Lab Members:
- Chandrakanth M:
- Received ISEB (Indian Society for Evolutionary Biologist) Student Grant for attending ISEB 3-Insect Systematics and Evolutionary Biology International Conference. (Year 2022)
- Qualified DBT JRF under Category-1 (Year 2022)
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- Best Poster award in ISEB (Indian Society for Evolutionary Biologist) 3- Systematics and Evolutionary Biology International Conference. (Year 2022)
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- Selected for PhD position at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany (Year 2022)
- Devashis Kumar:
- CSIR-NET Fellowship (Year 2018)
Dr. Kritika Garg
Year 2021: DBT Ramalingaswami Fellowship
Year 2020: Ramanujan Fellowship
Year 2022: DBT research grant
Achievements of the Lab Members:
- Tennison Gurumayum:
- Travel grant to attend ‘SERB-DST funded Karyashala Workshop Application: Thinking Ecology Quantitatively’ held at CES, IISc, Bengaluru (Year 2022)
- Scholarship to attend ‘Conservation genetics in the tropics’ hosted by the Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain (Year 2022)
Dr. Krishna Venkata Melnattur
Year 2021: DBT Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship
Year 2023: DST SERB Core Research Grant
Member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Sleep
Dr. Laasya Samhita
Year 2023: SMBE (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution) regional meeting International award, received jointly with Dr. Shraddha Karve, Faculty Fellow, Ashoka University, to organize a regional meeting in India
Dr. Bittu Kaveri Rajaraman
Year (2013-2018): DST INSPIRE Faculty Awardee
Year 2016: Developing Neuroethology Award
Year 2020: DST-SERB Core Research Grant
Year 2023: India Bioscience Outreach grant
Achievements of the Lab Members:
- Aarini Ghosh:
- Equipment and student travel grant by Project Tiger India, Wildlife Institute of India, at 1st Indian Conservation Conference (Year 2023)
- Travel grant from the British Ecological Society (Year 2022).
- Selected for the Acoustic Communication Summer program, at the Southern University of Denmark (Year 2022).
- Abhishek Singh
- Awarded a travel grant to attend The Third International Student Symposium on Animal Behavior and Cognition going to be held at UNAM, Mexico (Year 2023)
- Travel fellowship from NTNU, Norway for the Statistical Quantification of Individual Differences (SQuID) (Year 2023)
- Manasa Veluvali:
- Recipient of Felix Fellowship to pursue Masters in Clinical Psychology at the University of Reading (Year 2022)
- Tanmay Singh:
- Recipient of India Science Forum grant for work on diversity in the sciences along with Bittu K R and Reena Gupta.
- Aniruddha Methi:
- Recipient of Global-MINDS Erasmus Mundus Fellowship for Masters in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society (Year 2023).
- Shubhi Pal:
- Recipient of Neurasmus Mundus Fellowship, or Erasmus Mundus for Joint Master Program in Neuroscience (M.Sc.) (Year 2023).
- Member, International Society for Neuroethology
